I’m a data geek. I collect far too much of it. To me, an hour romping in survey results is like heaven. At the end of each season, our artists are encouraged to respond to a survey so that they can really tell us what they think about the summer that just ended. It’s anonymous,
Read MorePosts Categorized: 2011 Season
Curious Women 2.0
The set and costumes of our 2011 production of Wolf-Ferrari’s Le donne curiose have traveled south from The Barns and will take the stage this weekend at Shenandoah University. If you’re anywhere near Winchester VA this weekend, check it out!
Read MoreDeadlines and Linkage
The second deadline of the audition season looms tonight at midnight DST (for applications for Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco & Seattle). And notifications for the New York site applications are going out as we speak. If we weren’t able to put you through this year, we still wish you all the best as you navigate
Read MoreWhere We Come From
Now that was something. I’m not given to superlatives. I’m a fan of quietly shepherding and shaping something until it speaks for itself in the most eloquent way possible. Whether it’s my own kids (who are two of the best people on the planet) or the artists we work so hard to support (who do
Read MoreSurprises
Events like this – put together in 36 hours or less, with lots of moving parts – are full of electricity and excitement. But there are the inevitable surprises. (Like the earthquake that disrupted rehearsal this afternoon for an hour…) One of this week’s surprises was an artist cancellation. We just learned that mezzo-soprano Stephanie
Read MoreTrapping Wolves, Part 2
Alan Held, cicadas, a Memorex Moment, and the hot summer of 1987. Read all about it here.
Read MoreTrapping Wolves, Part 1
Bass-baritone Alan Held is just across the river in D.C., rehearsing for Washington National Opera’s Tosca, and he’ll be here next week for our anniversary concert. Surf on over to his blog for today’s post Trapping Wolves – Part 1. In it he talks about his audition for Wolf Trap, in which he sang “Abendlich
Read MoreBy the Numbers: WTOC’s 40th Anniversary Concert
14 Alumni of the WTOC, returning to donate their performances to benefit the Company 17 Different years of the Company’s history represented by these singers 9 Members of the 2011 summer Filene Young Artist roster returning to sing with the alumni 58 Major opera companies worldwide represented in the collective biography of these singers 22
Read MoreHomecoming: Stephanie Blythe
Stephanie spent two summers at the Trap, and her roles included Fidalma in Il matromonio segreto, Marchesa Melibea in Il viaggio a Reims, Dame Quickly in Falstaff (far left), Tisbe in Cenerentola (typical WTOC luxury casting…) and Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare. I had the privilege of being on music staff during Stephanie’s Wolf Trap summers,
Read MoreHomecoming: Matt Boehler
Fortunately, it doesn’t feel as if Matt ever really left us! He’s of the most recent “vintage” on our alumni concert, and he returned just a few months ago to create a memorable Adolfo in the premiere of Wolf Trap’s newest commissioned opera, The Inspector. Matt’s WTOC roles included Sweeney Todd, Leporello in Don Giovanni,
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